Analysation/Inspiration TIME Unit

The piece of art that I'm analysing/ that was my inspiration is the painting "Time Loop" by Blanka Ciok.

I believe this clock shows the background body and the clock face as to entirely different entities. The background is a rough texture; with patches and smudges, darker color, earthy and chaos. Whilst in comparison the clock face has elegant numeral; a smooth border, organized and still in the same borders.

It also went with my ideology of time being a circle; neverending. The time that has past has left the painting; the time that is still to come is far away in the yet uknown and still unsee-able future, but you know it's there. You know time will continue.

The aforementioned rough texture'd background fit perfectly with my own painting quote, "times are rough". However, this artist decided to make the clock face smooth an elegant whilst I made the whole clock rough.

Along with that the numerals are, in my opinion, a bit of a mixture of both Roman Numerals and the Normal Number system; therefore a bit unbiased. If clock can be unbiased.

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Excuse the background that is my jeans covered legs.

Update Nr. 2. Time Unit

If gotten the first round of feedback from my art teacher; he thinks it would be a great idea to fill the crack of the numbers and letters with a color; so that they stand out even more. I was thinking about the color gold; as to me, that color represent cleanliness and greatness, almost holy; which when filled roughly into the cracks of the totally unsmooth letters and numbers would show just how rough times are.

How even the gold and holy isn't as smooth and organized as we think it is.

Then there's the fact of supporting the clock.... yeah... don't think so. I think my clock is alright as it is; it's supposed to be wonky and weird and stuff.

Update on Time Unit

We've recently been to Spain for a week-long class trip; there I saw a clock with half of the number written in roman numerals and the other half in usual numerals, (the computer ones, I don't know what they're called).

Then another class was working with lino cut; therefore I came up with the idea of making a lino cut. The clock face would be the dark grey color of the lino cut material; I'll cut out the numbers. 12 1 2 6 7 8 in roman numerals and 3 4 5 9 10 11 in usual numerals. Then the body of the clock; the rest of the lino cut rectangle. Will be unevenly covered in patches, squared and triangles. Then in the two largest; inscribe the quote, "TIMES ARE ROUGH".

Because of the smaller issues the world is now facing; or rather the issues the world has been facing for a long time but that I just now have been made aware of.

Initial Ideas.

When presented with the idea of being able to focus an artwork on the prospect of time; it got me hooked.

"Time is running out!"
"If I could fall into the sky, do you think time would pass me by?"
"History repeats itself."
"Life is a never-ending circle of time."

These quotes were just some of the ideas that I got; some of them are well known quotes, others are pieces of lyrics.

You can say I was a bit bummed out when we were told that the artwork had to be a clock; a clockwork with face, handles and a body. All coming together to your idea of time.

The first ideas I had was

•  a spiral; which would have given me a huge load of technical difficulties as to how to make the hands go smaller and smaller as they came closer to the center. Then there was the issue of not really finding appropriate numerals.
• spider web; a clock; quite old and no longer functioning, covered in spider webs to show that we've stopped moving. To bring across my thought about the human race no longer developing. Yes, we're constantly creating new things; but our mentalities are still the same as back then. We've created a electric car prototype that could be mass-produced, but we wont start using it; mostly because people are to greedy and as long as oil consuming cars are used, countries with oil are still in power. A power they don't want to use. All that would be brought across in one clock.
• hourglass; an hourglass filled with sand; and a small clock swimming on the surface of the sand. Simply because I think it would be awesome. However; my time would limit me and it would be rushed.
• clock; a normal clock with roman numerals

I'll spend some time thinking about it.